I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.